Social Worker

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Health and Allied Health

Reference: 65349

**Monash at Home - Social Worker - Grade 1 (Full-time Ongoing Position)**

Working in Health care has never been more important or meaningful

**Our Journey**

The Monash at Home - Aged and Rehabilitation Care service, previously GEM at Home, launched in December 2020. The service is a fundamental part of the broader Aged and Rehabilitation Division, providing safe and high-quality home-based subacute level care for individuals with complex medical, functional, and often cognitive issues, who require comprehensive, medically led multidisciplinary assessment and optimisation. The service is seen as an alternative to hospital-based subacute care, designed to facilitate an earlier discharge from acute care and/or to avoid a subacute hospital stay entirely. Patients within the service receive at least daily visits from a member of the multidisciplinary team and access to 24-hour telephone support.?The model of care aims to provide short term, high quality, safe and effective patient centred care to individuals within the primary Monash Health catchment. The Program is entering an exciting phase of growth which will include, but not limited to, increasing the service clinical capacity and extending the geographical catchment.

These roles are located in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria as well as servicing various Monash Health sites including The Kingston Centre in Cheltenham and Cranbourne. Travel to and working at any of these sites is a requirement of the role.

**A Day in the Life**

The Grade 1 Social Worker with the Monash at Home - Aged and Rehabilitation Care service provides specialised assessment, diagnosis, treatment and provides prevention management strategies for subacute (aged and rehabilitation) patients. They are expected to provide best practice and excellent service delivery to our patients. You will work effectively and collaboratively while developing strong partnerships both within Monash Health, and outside organisation. The core function of the Grade 1 Social Worker includes the following:

- Client assessment, planning, treatment and coordination of services to patients
- Consistent re-evaluation of protocols and practices and patient care to ensure best practice.
- Clinical mentoring and education for physiotherapy and other students

**What You Bring**:
You are passionate Social Worker with exceptional clinical knowledge and assessment skills, and ability to work with a range of stakeholders. You demonstrate this passion in delivering clinical care in the community setting and through working within a team in this field. You have proven ability to deliver successful, timely outcomes?across service delivery, and you are an effective communicator who builds rapport rapidly, and whilst you can work autonomously, you are also a strong team player.

On a personal level, you can also demonstrate:

- Your forward thinking approach to care - your ideas matter to us
- Enthusiasm for working in a multifaceted role
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Ambition to grow your clinical skills and expand your knowledge
- Your proactive and team player attitude
- Your strong communication and interpersonal skills

**What you need**:

- Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work Qualifying or recognised equivalent qualification.
- Accredited or eligible for ordinary membership of the AASW, or written evidence of eligibility
- Current Victorian Driver’s Licence without restrictions

**In return**:

- A supportive and cohesive team within a larger interdisciplinary setting
- Genuine career progression pathways
- Continual opportunities to use your drive for innovation to develop services to meet the changing landscape within the broader health care system

For a confidential discussion and to explore the opportunity further, please call Jacinta Sadler, Allied Health and Psychology Manager - 0438 068 750

**Monash Health is a great place to work**

In 2022 Monash Health was nominated by LinkedIn as one of the top 25 organisations in Australia to grow your career. Our employees enjoy a range of benefits including:

- salary packaging options that increase your take-home pay
- a comprehensive Health and Wellbeing program
- free vaccinations
- private health insurance at discounted rates
- health imaging services
- + more

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service and proudly provides health care to one quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers.? More than 25,500 of us work at over 40 care locations across south-eastern Melbourne. We recognise the value of equal employment opportunity and we are committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At